Account Disabled

Urban Hat€monger ? · 08-31-2007, 02:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fal

In your post I can essentially see two primary themes:

"Hai guyz! I Just won the Special Olympics, wanna come round and rip the **** out of me?"

"How do I modded forums?"

Protip: you're a failure as a moderator. Replacing you with a monkey would be less damaging.

So may I ask what your motivation was for doing something that Right-Track & myself asked people not to do just a week or so before?

The way I see it you either did it for 2 reasons.

1. To take the piss
2. You were unlucky enough to do it at the wrong place & time

In the case of 1 , quite honestly you got what you deserve. In the case of 2 it may have been harsh but then life is sometime.

Barnard17 · 08-31-2007, 04:40 AM

It was the case of 2. The fact that you were too much of a lazy cunt to even think to find out is a sign of an inexperienced mod with too much power and not enough sense.

The issue here is:
1) you leap to ban somebody who hasn't had an infraction in months. Why?
2) you're banning them over a rule that's more a pet hate than something that's by necessity for the site (and something that would be more easily solved and less disruptive for the community by simply altering the forum settings, as has been suggested already but not acted upon).
3) the rule that you're banning them over isn't stickied ANYWHERE, it's not in ANY rule threads. The only way a person can know about it is if they were reading the Lounge between the 15th to the 17th of august, and thought the thread named "Account Disabled" would be an interesting read. Protip: that's not a good way for people to know about a rule.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 08-31-2007, 09:13 AM

Like I said , you came & did it after a glut of other people did it when my patience was tested.Had you done it a couple of months ago or a couple on months later you probably would have got PMed about it first.
But like I said after a glut of other people doing it and getting bombarded with PMs asking 'why has so & so been banned , 'why do I have to change my account status blah blah blah , it gets tiresome very quickly.
I'm not ban happy , in fact in a year of moderating i've not even reached double figures when it comes to banning people so please don't trot out the 'too much power' crap.
I was not made a mod because i'm some automaton who always does the right thing all the time. I'm human , I lose my pateince , I get frustrated , it happens. You are not infallible & neither am I.
I said it was harsh in the circumstances , but like I said it was a call I made at the time. Usually when someone makes a harsh decision it's bought up in the mod forum for discussion.
In your case nobody did.

sleepy jack · 08-31-2007, 06:20 PM

Okay so members know whats going on...

If you look at Dons username you'll see a strike through it, which means hes banned. So you can go change your usertitle to Account Disabled all you want and think you're the wittiest poster ever and it won't be that convincing. Though it wasn't that convincing to begin with since most of you left your signatures on which you wouldn't have if you were banned...

/lock

08-31-2007, 04:40 AM	#32 (permalink)
Barnard17 My home? Discabled, Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bristol, UK Posts: 204	It was the case of 2. The fact that you were too much of a lazy cunt to even think to find out is a sign of an inexperienced mod with too much power and not enough sense. The issue here is: 1) you leap to ban somebody who hasn't had an infraction in months. Why? 2) you're banning them over a rule that's more a pet hate than something that's by necessity for the site (and something that would be more easily solved and less disruptive for the community by simply altering the forum settings, as has been suggested already but not acted upon). 3) the rule that you're banning them over isn't stickied ANYWHERE, it's not in ANY rule threads. The only way a person can know about it is if they were reading the Lounge between the 15th to the 17th of august, and thought the thread named "Account Disabled" would be an interesting read. Protip: that's not a good way for people to know about a rule. __________________ Vita brevis, Occasio praeceps

08-31-2007, 09:13 AM	#33 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Like I said , you came & did it after a glut of other people did it when my patience was tested.Had you done it a couple of months ago or a couple on months later you probably would have got PMed about it first. But like I said after a glut of other people doing it and getting bombarded with PMs asking 'why has so & so been banned , 'why do I have to change my account status blah blah blah , it gets tiresome very quickly. I'm not ban happy , in fact in a year of moderating i've not even reached double figures when it comes to banning people so please don't trot out the 'too much power' crap. I was not made a mod because i'm some automaton who always does the right thing all the time. I'm human , I lose my pateince , I get frustrated , it happens. You are not infallible & neither am I. I said it was harsh in the circumstances , but like I said it was a call I made at the time. Usually when someone makes a harsh decision it's bought up in the mod forum for discussion. In your case nobody did. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.